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 7 And lets his wig in a low, which burnt for some time unperceived, till the ſlamies came izzing about his ears! He firſt put out the lames by tramping on the wig: and being uformed that Tom had done it, flies to him ia a rage, ordering him to looſe his breeches : ut Tom told him, he was never ſo mad. Then he drew out his knife, whips poor Tom over his knee, and with great kicking and ſtruggling, cuts the waiſtband of his breeches through pudding and all ſo that the blood guſhed out, and Tom cried out, Murder! murder ! and down he tell. The poor Do- minie ran out at the door, crying and wring- ing his bands! Word flew about that Tom was ſticket by the Dominie, which made the people come running from ſeveral parts of the country round about, to ſee how it was; but upon ſearching him they found only the empty pudding, which diſcovered the fraud. Then two men had to get horſes and ride after the poor Dominie who had by this time got two or three miles away; but when he ſaw them riding after him, and heard the crying to him to ſtop and come back again, he ran the faſter, until he could run no more, but fell over upon the road, praying them to let him go, for if he was taken back, he was ſure to be hanged; and would not be perſuaded Tom was alive, till they forced him back, and he law him, but